10 Popular Game Series You Can Totally Play Out of Order and Follow Along Just Fine

Where should you start? It doesn't matter.

Have you ever wanted to jump into a series without knowing any of the backstory or avoiding the archaic mechanics of the roots of those games? Well, sometimes that’s more impossible than we’d like to admit. For starters, you will be more lost than you can imagine if you started playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain before playing any of the first four.

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However, that does not mean there aren’t series that can be played out of order. In fact, there are many. In fact, here are ten such series that you can jump into and enjoy at any point in their timeline.


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Brandon was a freelance writer for Twinfinite from August 2016 through until October of the same year. He covered video game news for the site, with a particular focus on PlayStation and Nintendo. An Albuquerque native who likes Breaking Bad, The Wire, Gears of War, Fallout, Uncharted, Mario, and an assortment of other games. Popeye's Chicken is also very enjoyable.